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 January 5
 1855: King Gillette, inventor of the
safety
razor, was born. 1914: Ford Motor Company announced that there would be a new
daily
minimum wage of $5 and an eight-hour workday. 1933: Work began
on San Francisco's
Golden Gate Bridge. 1940: The Federal Communications Commission
(FCC) got its first demonstration of FM radio. 1943: American educator, scientist,
chemist, inventor and botanist,
George
Washington Carver, died. 1948:
Warner
Brothers showed the first color newsreel (of the Rose Bowl parade). 1981: American
Nobel physicist
Harold Urey, who discovered deuterium, died. 2005:
Eris,
the largest known dwarf planet in the solar system, was discovered.
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| Feb | Mar |
Apr | May |
Jun | Jul |
Aug | Sep |
Oct | Nov |
Dec |
Note: These
historical tidbits have been collected from various sources, mostly on the Internet.
As detailed in
this article, there
is a lot of wrong information that is repeated hundreds of times because most websites
do not validate with authoritative sources. On RF Cafe, events with
hyperlinks have been verified. Many years ago,
I began commemorating the birthdays of notable people and events with
special RF Cafe logos.
Where available, I like to use images from postage stamps from the country where
the person or event occurred. Images used in the logos are often from open source
websites like Wikipedia, and are specifically credited with a hyperlink back to
the source where possible.
Fair Use laws permit
small samples of copyrighted content.
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